Inclusive Extensions #21

Inclusive Extensions – Shifting Borders by Design

One of IMPAKT’s 2019 themes, Speculative Interfaces (speculative design), is brought together with New Emergences’ Access & Disablism, to develop an extended design project focusing on accessible designs for people with a disability.

What’s it about?

This series of events will focus on how art, design and technology can adapt towards difference and inclusivity in society, recognizing all human value and agency. How inclusive is our current society to people with disabilities? What would an inclusive society look like? What steps need to be taken towards such a society, and what are solutions that we can design ? These are the core questions in:

Phase 1: a discussion event on Friday 20 December 2019 where researchers, artists and designers, of different abilities, exchange ideas from their own field of expertise. Everyone is warmly invited to join and share their thoughts. This event will lay the foundation for a series of three design workshops and a final presentation event by IMPAKT in 2020.

The workshops aim for a substantial representation of people with disabilities, in the roles of workshop leader, participant and user. By working with disability-led organizations and individuals, we create an inclusive workspace and flexible working methods.

We invite you to participate and learn how to design and build a functional prototype that improves accessibility for people with a visual impairment. We will work together as a group and smaller subgroups, from discussion, concept and experiment to realisation, to give you the knowledge, tools and support towards realising your own design.

Phase 3 –presentation event at IMPAKT of all the concepts, sketches, prototypes, among designs from current designers and makers.